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Since late last week, the Dodge Viper ACR teams attempting to set the Nurburgring production road car lap time record has been hard at work at the famous German road course, but so far, the team has only been able to equal their previous record of 7:03.

Sunday evening Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared an image of Tesla Model S in the company tunnel being dug under Los Angeles, starting in Hawthorne, CA. It immediately raised 3 questions among those who follow Tesla and hope to use the hyperloop one day soon. Watch the video inside too.

Why does Volkswagen seem to keep shooting itself in its left front tire, so to speak? Just when the wheels of Dieselgate seemed to be slowing to a stop, prosecutors found what could be another scandal right in the paperwork they are using to investigate the emissions scandal in Europe, possibly thousands of cars built using a repeating set of VINs. So why did someone do it? No one knows right now.

I track ten plug-in vehicles for my blog "My Electric Vehicle Journey" and I am astonished each month, when I see the Toyota Prius Prime sales figures. I cannot understand how it competes so well, against plug-in hybrids, such as the Chevy Volt or Ford C-Max Energy. Heck, it has even outsold the fully electric Chevy Bolt EV and Tesla Model X in some months, this year.

Two vehicles from the Volkswagen Group led this year's J.D. Power Seat Study. Based on the responses of more than 77,000 new car and truck owners, Audi's A-3 led in cars with no problems reported; Porsche's Cayenne led the SUV category with 0.8 problems per 100 vehicles.

The Chevy Volt led me to a pretty drastic career change: selling cars at my Chevy dealership. I had no experience in commissioned sales and was a bit worried about my ability to make a living, but I knew I wanted the world to know about electric vehicles. I knew I had to be a part of the way forward.

Audi has announced a key change in the way it names its vehicles. For a long time, the automaker labeled its vehicles starting with the model name, such as A8. Then, the automaker would give the engine size and the engine type -- gasoline turbo, turbodiesel. Now, Audi is to drop size as an important criterion and will add power output.

First a disclaimer about comparing Chevy Volt vs the Bolt EV: I leased my first Chevy Volt in August of 2012. Before the next month ended, my wife leased one as well. About a year later my Chevy dealer hired me as its first EVangelist.

Lamborghini used the Monterey Car Week to unveil and display a unique trio of high-performance autos. The display was the first time that the trio, Aventador S, record-setting Huracan Performente and the Huracan Spyder, were shown together anywhere in the world.

Volkswagen's Jetta led the way as the automaker swept the top three spots in AutoPacific's 2017 Ideal Vehicle Awards. The research firm surveyed more than 54,000 2016 and 2017 new vehicle owners to determine the winners in several categories.